Respiratory aerosols and droplets in the transmission of infectious diseases

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, OO Krüger, JD Förster… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Knowing the physicochemical properties of exhaled droplets and aerosol particles is a
prerequisite for a detailed mechanistic understanding and effective prevention of the …

Bioaerosol nexus of air quality, climate system and human health

F Shen, M Yao - National Science Open, 2023 - nso-journal.org
Aerosols of biological origins, known as bioaerosols, in addition to having the aerosol
properties, have those of a living system that offers them some enabling functionalities. From …

Global organic and inorganic aerosol hygroscopicity and its effect on radiative forcing

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, J Quaas, J Mülmenstädt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The climate effects of atmospheric aerosol particles serving as cloud condensation nuclei
(CCN) depend on chemical composition and hygroscopicity, which are highly variable on …

Determination of the protein content of complex samples by aromatic amino acid analysis, liquid chromatography-UV absorbance, and colorimetry

K Reinmuth-Selzle, T Tchipilov, AT Backes… - Analytical and …, 2022 - Springer
Fast and accurate determination of the protein content of a sample is an important and non-
trivial task of many biochemical, biomedical, food chemical, pharmaceutical, and …

Water solubility distribution of organic matter accounts for the discrepancy in hygroscopicity among sub-and supersaturated humidity regimes

WC Lee, Y Deng, R Zhou, M Itoh… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water uptake properties of organic matter (OM) are critical for aerosol direct and indirect
effects. OM contains various chemical species that have a wide range of water solubility …

Field evaluation of an automated pollen sensor

C Jiang, W Wang, L Du, G Huang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Seasonal pollen is a common cause of allergic respiratory disease. In the
United States, pollen monitoring occurs via manual counting, a method which is both labor …

Detecting the pH-dependent liquid-liquid phase separation of single levitated aerosol microdroplets via laser tweezers-Raman spectroscopy

YK Tong, X Meng, B Zhou, R Sun, Z Wu, M Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ambient atmospheric aerosol particles comprised of various inorganic and organic
substances ubiquitously undergo phase transition, such as efflorescence, amorphization …

[HTML][HTML] Cloud condensation nuclei activation properties of Mediterranean pollen types considering organic chemical composition and surface tension effects

A Casans, F Rejano, J Maldonado-Valderrama… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind-dispersed pollen grains emitted from vegetation are directly injected into the
atmosphere being an important source of natural aerosols globally. These coarse particles …

Hygroscopic growth and CCN activity of secondary organic aerosol produced from dark ozonolysis of γ-terpinene

H Bouzidi, L Fayad, C Coeur, N Houzel… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The hygroscopic growth factor (GF) and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity of
secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles produced during dark ozonolysis of γ-terpinene …

Ice nucleation activity of airborne pollen: A short review of results from laboratory experiments

P Duan, W Hu, Z Wu, K Bi, J Zhu, P Fu - Atmospheric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Airborne pollen impacts cloud formation and thus affects radiative forcing and climate.
Therefore, there is a growing interest in its ice nucleation activity (INA). In this paper, the …